Fixed Wireless Communications Coalition Urges Wider Channels in 23 GHz Band
The Fixed Wireless Communications Coalition (FWCC) supported a request by Mimosa Networks that the FCC add 80, 160 and 320 MHz channels to the 21.2-23.6 GHz band. FWCC said the FCC should go even further and add 100, 150, 200,…
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300 and 400 MHz channels as well. The group also said it was renewing a “long- standing request” for automated federal coordination and conditional authorization throughout the entire 23 GHz band. That band is critical to wireless backhaul, the FWCC said. Wider channels would “serve the public interest by allowing backhaul operators to handle more capacity and offer faster data rates. ... Allowing wider channels can also result in more efficient spectrum utilization,” FWCC said, quoting language from a 2012 FCC order on the 6 GHz and 11 GHz bands. “The same is true here,” the coalition said. The filing was in docket 10-153.